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"Disc Cannot Be Played... Please Check The Disc"?

El-cheapo Panasonic.

Tried two discs. Same message.

Put both discs in another player (similar make/model), they played no problem.

Pulled the cover off, blew some air on the little laser thingie, then wiped it
with a photographic lens cleaner.

Put it back together.... no-go.

I'm guessing this thing is toast.

Or is there some other simple procedure that I could try myself?

I don't know.

But if this is a boombox, I found it pretty easy to take out
the dead CD player in a boombox I found waiting for the garbage
truck last year, and it was easy to trace the audio lines and
bring them out to jacks, giving me external inputs to use
with a "Walkman-type" cd player, or for the now popular "MP3
player compatibility".

Michael